Headcount ratio, i.e., percentage of population below the poverty line has
fallen marginally from 23.94 percent in 2004-05 to 22.32 percent in 2005-06,
an improvement of 1.62 percentage points.
Poverty in rural areas declined from 28.13 percent to 27.0 percent,
showing an improvement of 1.13 percentage between 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Poverty in Urban areas also registered a decline from 14.94 percent to 13.1
percent during 2004-05 and 2005-06, thereby, depicting an improvement of
1.84 percentage points in the period.
Expenditures on pro-poor sectors in 2006-07 at 5.7 percent of GDP were
well above the requirement under the Law.
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
Total road network is about 260,000 km of which around 60% is paved.
Road density is 0.32 km/km2 which is low and compares unfavorably with
other South Asian countries (Bangladesh-1.7 km/km2, Sri Lanka-1.5
km/km2 and India-1.0 km/km2).
Government intends to generate/ mobilize all possible resources to double
road density to 0.64 km/km2.
Tele-density in the country has jumped from a mere 6% to 57% (Mar- 08)
in few years.
Total subscriber base stands at 82.5 million (Mar 2008) whereas it was
34.5 million in 2006.
Currently there are a total of almost 12,689 Broadband subscribers, 3.5
million internet subscribers; total users crossed 17 million marks. Currently
around 3,008 cities are connected to internet cities.
ENERGY
Oil and Gas
Transport sector consumes 50.9 percent of the petroleum products,
followed by power sector (32.8 percent), industry (11.0 percent), household
(1.9 percent), other government (2.2 percent), and agriculture (1.2 percent)
during last 10 years i.e. 1997-98 to 2006-07
Crude oil production per day has increased to 70,166 barrels from 66,485
barrels per day last year, showing an increase of 5.54 percent.
Overall production of crude oil has increased to 19.3 million barrels
during July-March 2007-08 from 18.2 million barrels last year showing an
increase of 5.9 percent.
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